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I think we've mostly discussed these - either among the board as a
whole, or among various subsets of us in IRC and such. I just
wanted to make sure they're all gathered in one place to make it
easier to keep track of them.<br>
<br>
These are potential presentations I could do myself, or could
otherwise participate in:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Overview of Git, or possibly a general into to distributed
version control systems. I know that Joe is interested in this
too, and if we were to do this we should definitely reach out to
Charles Butler to ask him if he'd participate (as he's also
expressed an interest in doing such a presentation).</li>
<li>Hacking up Firefox add-ons (this may not be a "full"
presentation, so could potentially be done in conjunction with
another short "how-to" presentation).</li>
<li>Introduction to OpenAFS - admittedly this is sort of a niche,
but could be interesting because (among other reasons) AFS
itself is strongly rooted in Pittsburgh (it was created at CMU),
and at least two members of the OpenAFS "Council of Elders" are
still in Pittsburgh.</li>
</ul>
Other presentation ideas that have been previously floated (from the
board meeting minutes):<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Intro to Drupal, and/or possibly a general intro to CMS.</li>
<li>Presentation about Monkey (not to be confused with
monkeybot...)</li>
<li>Related to Stanley's idea about reaching out to teach people
about Linux, perhaps a general introductory presentation about
Linux. This isn't a good fit for our "traditional" audience, so
perhaps it could be done as an out-of-cycle event, specifically
seeking out an audience that hasn't had any exposure to Linux.
I actually have a canned intro presentation that I've delivered
twice - once for the CPUser Group out in Tarentum, and once for
PACC. This is probably something we should make a point to keep
updated and ready to present on a moment's notice.</li>
</ul>
Also, one other thought, while I have it in mind...<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Also related to outreach, we should also give some thought
again to whether we want to do something specifically for
Software Freedom Day this year. This is also something I don't
think fits into the normal GUM cycle, at least not the way I
envision it - my thought is that it would be more about
education and evangelism than any kind of formal presentation.
My idea here is not to get the public to come to us - but
rather, we go to the public... I've had this idea the last
couple of years (that unfortunately we never really had a chance
to pursue) of maybe approaching one of the larger shopping malls
in the area and try to convince them to let us use a vacant
kiosk for the day, bring some informational handouts, some CDs,
and maybe a couple of laptops for demos. I know Terry was
disappointed in our lack of a plan for Software Freedom Day the
last couple of years, he might be interested in getting
something like this going.</li>
</ul>
Any other ideas we should make sure to consider?<br>
<br>
--Pat.<br>
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